Imagine not learning anything from fiction….

and Eli Wallach!

sounds made up, like "midwstern emo"

uh oh you caught me!

which is crazy when you consider 2 men from the same family ran this town for 45 of last 60 years (lol) and even crazier when you consider the machine that goes back farther than that

but to your point: it's been a mixed bag. Harold Washington the goat famously got stonewalled by the racism caucus and BJ has stumbled facing massive opposition but we (with our long history left/radical politics etc) are capable of tossing out the neolibs, all i'm sayin!

Chicago has done this twice (1984, 2023) just fyi. I know no one cares about us but

[warren oates voice] got these skis GoD DaMNIT